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Katsumasa Hamaguchi

3×3 · top 86.1% of 284,439 all-time · competing since April 2022 · 2022HAMA02

Katsumasa Hamaguchi has been competing for 4 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 50.12, set at Slow N Steady Spring 2022, puts him in the top 86.1% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 2,817th in Japan. Across 7 competitions since April 2022, he has put 32 official solves on the record across one event. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 11% around a typical one, an early reading from 7 counted rounds. That figure sets aside his 3 DNFs. Katsumasa has entered seven competitions, more competitions than 88% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 86.1% of 284,439 all-time
50.12
signature single · Slow N Steady Spring 2022
32
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingJapan
3×350.1258.06
top 86.1%2,817 / 3,329

Percentile against all competitors ever ranked in each event, a fairer measure than raw rank, because the pools differ by a factor of ten.

The line so far

Slow N Steady Spring 2022: 50.12Princeton Spring 2022: 54.17River Hill Spring 2022: 50.83Dunkirk Spring A 2022: 51.95Pennsylvania Championship 2022: 53.37Rubik's WCA North American Championship 2022: 56.17Owings Mills Summer 2022: 55.7650.1256.172 Apr 202216 Jul 2022

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

Competitions

Reading this page: a single is one solve's time · an average is the middle three of five solves, best and worst discarded · a PB is a personal best · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · top X% compares against everyone ever ranked in that event, which is fairer than raw rank because event pools differ tenfold.

The circuit

The people whose scorecards keep turning up next to his.

Next targets

  • A sub-50 3×3 single — 244,718 people have one; it is 0.12 away.

Targets move as he improves.